Press for sweetmeats, tablets, and the like.



F. BAUERLE.

PRESS FOR SWEETMEATS, TABLETS, AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION IILBD DEC. 2, 1907.

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

Wit messes.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PRESS FOR SWEETMEATS,

No. 906,676. Specification of TABLETS, AND THE LIICE.

Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

Application filed December 2, 1907. Serial No. 404,792.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Fninoincn Bit ennui, a 3

subject of the Emperor of Germany, re-

siding at Stuttgart, Viirtemberg, in the' German Empire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Presses for Sweetmeats, Tablets, and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a press for sweetmcats. tablets and the like, which cuts and conugresscs the continuous sweet-yard, and which is fitted with laterally moving sideblocks for completing the mold and preventing waste; the object being the simplifying of the press in its construction and operation.

in the press hereinafter described and illustrated by the annexed drawing, all complicated operating gear, such as toothed wheels and belt drive, is avoided, and its molding and severing parts comprise mainly an intermittently revolving polygonal plate with cutting teeth adapted to operate in conjunction with a vertically moving presser and the aforesaid laterally moving side blocks.

Figure l of the drawing is a front elevation partly shown in section; Fig. 2, is a vertical section on line AB of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a portion of Fig. 2 with the operative parts in the depressed position.

The polygonal plate 1 is fast on the shaft 2 suitably mounted in the standards 5 or frame of the machine. The shaft has keyed to it two ratchets operated by spring pawls t. T he plate 1. which of suitable thickness, has cutters G at its edges to cooperate with analogous cutters 7 at the underside of vertically moving press-bar S. An eccentric t), on the power shaft, 10, is fitted with strap formed with a depending eye engaged by a pin to lugs 12 of a head-beam it to which the press bar 8 is fixed as well as depending arms 13 for use in carrying the pawls 4. These arms are guided in ways out in the standards 5. The press-bar S carries slotted end plates 1% in which are retained lateral moving blocks 1st. The slots 15 and 15 respectively in each end plate 1.4L engage the head pins 16 of the blocks Pt, and said slots are so shaped or curved as to force these blocks tight against the l plate 1 during the descent of the press bar 1 S and then move them apart during the ascent of the latter. To this end, the said 5 blocks M are carried upon rigid cross-bars 1 or brackets 17.

The operation is as follows: Vhile the power shaft 10 revolves, a continuously fed strand (4 of prepared .n'iaterial enters at one side of the press upon the upper edge of the plate 1 as indicated at Fig. 2,. The eccentric 9 revolves with its shaft and so causes its strap during the first part of a revolution to lower the head-beam 11 with the press-bar S and its aforesaid appendages, thereby bringing the blocks 1-'lclose against the plate 1. In this manner the material is being compressed at all sides and almost simultaneously cut; into a string of molded sweets, tablets or the like in the manner indicated at Fig. 3. The arms 1 in moving down will cause the pawls l to slip over the ratchettceth. During the following part of the revolution, the eccentric 9 effects the upward motion of the head beam 11, press-bar 8, and depending arms 13, accompanied with a. receding motion of the blocks l t and so causes the pawls f to revolve the ratchet 3 and bring the next edge of plate 1 to the top while at the same time discharging the string 7) of molded sweets or the like and drawing in a fresh length of prepared material.

I claim:

Tn a press for sweetmeats, tablets and the like, the combination with a frame and continuously rotated power shaft and eccentric, an intermittently revolving shaft, a polygonal plate and ratchets fast on this shaft, of a vertically moving press-bar and headloeam above said plate, lugs on said head beam and an eccentric strap hinged to said lugs and mounted on the eccentric, depending arms secured to the ends of the headbeam, pawls fixed to the ends of such arms and engaging said ratchets, slotted endplates fixed to the press-bar, blocks retained in the slots of these end plates, and brackets for supporting the blocks, as and for the purpose set forth.

FRIEDRICH BAUER-LE. W itnesses I-I. ALBERT BAUER, ERNEST ENTENMANN. 

